Performance / Tour News

Holding It Down: Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd with Maurice Decaul

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2010

Acclaimed pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and celebrated poet/performer Mike Ladd (in collaboration with Iraq veteran Maurice Decaul) launch a new work of music and poetry commissioned by Harlem Stage's WaterWorks program. Building on their groundbreaking collaborations In What Language? (2003) and Still Life with Commentator (2006), Iyer and Ladd collaborate with young American war veterans of color from the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to create a new work (working title Holding it Down). Based on interviews with veterans of ...

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Feinstein's Presents Veteran Cabaret/Jazz Singer and Comedian, Sue Matsuki, in Her Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

Source: Miller Wright & Associates
January 22, 2010

Feinstein's presents multi-award winning singer and the 1st Recipient of the Julie Wilson Award, SUE MATSUKI, in her highly acclaimed tribute show to the First Lady of Song herself...Ella Fitzgerald! This show celebrates Ella's Verve and Capital Record Series when Ella was asked to sing all the great contemporary tunes of the day composed by the likes of: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, James (Jimmy) Van Heusen, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Johnny Burke and more. Ira Gershwin ...

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Aruan Ortiz Trio: Free Concert at Mason Gross Performing Arts Center

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2010

New Brunswick, NJ -- Acclaimed pianist Aruan Ortiz brings his hypnotic blend of avant-garde jazz and world music to Nicholas Music Center on Thursday, February 11. The Aruan Ortiz Trio features the Grammy Award-nominated Ignacio Berroa on drums and Ed Howard on bass. Their appearance inaugurates Rutgers University's Common Purposes Concert Series.

“You know there's all this musical depth (with Ortiz), but in performance he's able to build dynamically something from start to end," says Carlos Fernandez, an ethnomusicologist and ...

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela Spring Dates

Source: JamBase
January 22, 2010

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA ANNOUNCE SPRING 2010 TOUR DATES

The explosive Mexican guitar-shredding Rodrigo y Gabriela have announced their Spring 2010 tour of North America. The dates begin February 28 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC, run through March, and culminate with a special performance at New York's historic Radio City Music Hall on April 29. These dates are a part of Rodrigo y Gabriela's world tour in support of their acclaimed sophomore album, 11:11, released in September 2009.

For ...

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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones | 12.19 | CO

Source: JamBase
January 22, 2010

Words by: Cassie Pence | Images by: Zach Mahone

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones :: 12.19.09 :: Vilar Performing Arts Center :: Beaver Creek, CO

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones :: 12.19 :: Colorado During Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' second set at the Vilar Performing Arts Center, Bela announced that the band would play the hardest song they'd ever attempted to learn.

“We're going to do 'The ...

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February Jazz Feast in North Carolina

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

By Larry Reni Thomas CHAPEL HILL, NC--Triangle North Carolina, which includes Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, is bracing itself for the upcoming month of February's musical avalanche and extravaganza of good jazz and African music. Fans are smiling, ecstatic and extremely happy that such first-class, all-star acts are headed this way that they can hardly contain themselves. This will be the first time in a long time that such a variety of jazz and African acts will be in ...

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Pushing Back: Jazz Notes Against the Current

Source: Michael Ricci
January 21, 2010

The young pianist Aaron Diehl is putting his talent against the odds. What hes up to with his trio, which played at Smalls on Tuesday night, isnt new in the temporal sense or new in the art-movement sense, which is to say it isnt confrontational or puzzling. It was a set that sounded as if it had arrived in a time capsule from before the 1960s game changers of jazz piano, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner, and thats strange coming ...

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Jazz Vocalist Elli Fordyce Live in New York City

Source: Michael Ricci
January 20, 2010

Elli Fordyce will be performing live at The Metropolitan Room in New York City on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 7:30pm, in support of her most recent CD release, “Songs Spun of Gold." Featured will be Elli's Grammy-honored jazz vocals with the album's luminous musicians, led by Jeremy Manasia on piano, with Aaron Heick on alto and flute, Ratzo Harris on bass, Phil Stewart on drums, Samuel Torres on percussion and Jim Malloy singing on the duets. To call Elli ...

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